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Why are gauge theories called so?
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So Black Holes Actually Merge! In 1/5th of a Second - How?
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Conformal Compactification of spacetime
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What Do We Get From Having Higher Generations of Particles?
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How does the Hubble parameter change with the age of the universe?
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Do all frequencies of light have the same speed?
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Crystal momentum and the vector potential
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Size of universe after inflation?
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Is there a strong force analog to magnetic fields?
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Why do headphone speakers sound 'tinny' when far from the ear?
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What do individual rainbow-forming droplets look like?
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What would the collision between a (large) solid planet and a gas giant be like?
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Why don't superconductors, which have zero electrical resistance, violate the second law of thermodynamics?
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Estimate the Sun's temperature, based on the duration of sunrise
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Differences between symmetric, Hermitian, self-adjoint, and essentially self-adjoint operators
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In the theory of special relativity speed is relative so who decides which observer’s time moves slower? [duplicate]
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Using Gauss's law when point charges lie exactly on the Gaussian surface
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What is the most appropriate mathematical theory for electrical circuits?
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A Rainbow Paradox
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How does a violin produce notes, microscopically?
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What exactly is the fireball caused by a nuclear bomb?
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What does Fermi level in the band gap mean?
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Why is the candela a base unit of the SI?
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Why can't sunlight reach the very deep parts of an ocean?
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Can a particle be physically observed inside a quantum barrier?
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To what degree of precision are atoms electrically neutral?
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Should a superconductor act as a perfect mirror?
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Is an electron a superconductor?
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Why does CNN's ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean dip the sea level instead of raising it?
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Invariance of Lagrangian in Noether's theorem
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Are infinite reflections between two mirrors really infinite?
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Why does my wife's skin buzz when she's using her laptop?
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How do we know the Schwarzschild solution contains an object of mass $M$?
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Why don't deuterons produce a helium-4 nucleus when they fuse?
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$p$-Adic String Theory and the String-orientation of Topological Modular Forms (tmf)
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Gaussian integral with imaginary coefficients and Wick rotation
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Why do disk brakes generate "more stopping power" than rim brakes?
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Is the "spacetime" the same thing as the mathematical 4th dimension?
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Are voltages discrete when we zoom in enough?
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What is the difference between a functional and an operator?
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Proof that the one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator is non-degenerate?
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Does relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM) really violate causality?
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Is every quantum measurement reducible to measurements of position and time?
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Equations for bent paper
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What does "the ${\bf N}$ of a group" mean?
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Use of 'complete' as in 'complete set of states' or 'complete basis'
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Why is rock or metal often cold to the touch but wood or plastic is not?
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How many molecules rub off when I press a key?
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Neutrino Oscillations and Conservation of Momentum
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Why are angles so weird?
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Can one classify partial differential equations according to the causality properties of their solutions (and if yes, then how)?
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Why do irrelevant operators require infinitely many counterterms?
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Why does bunched up aluminum foil become so extremely hard to compress?
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Time dilation all messed up!
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What is the definition of correlation length for the Ising model?
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How thick in diameter is the average lightning bolt visually?
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What actually is white light?
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Can the coefficient of static friction be less than that of kinetic friction?
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Why do we care about old-style, counterterm renormalizability?
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What are the calculations for Vacuum Energy?
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